What do you call this baby animal?

A baby animal usually has a particular name. Most of remember that a baby lion is a cub, but do you know when a baby is a pup, a kit, a cub or something else entirely? Even if you don't know what to call them, you won't want to miss their cute photos!

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When juvenile fish are old enough that their swim bladders are operational, their yolk sac has almost disappeared and they can feed themselves, they're called fry. Later, as fish get older and develop scales, they are called fingerlings because they are usually about the size of a finger.

Fishlings

Mini-fins

Fry

Hatchlings

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Bat pups are born hairless and cling to their mothers or, when their mothers are out hunting, to the roost walls or roof. Most species grow up quickly, and can be weaned off their mother's milk in one to two months.

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A baby kangaroo is called a joey, but don't worry if the other names sound familiar. An adult male is called a jack (or buck or boomer), while an adult female is called a jill (or doe or flyer). And all kangaroos are colloquially called roos.

Joey

Jack

Jill

Roo

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Deer young are known as fawns. However, for some of the larger species, including elk, a baby is called a calf. And for the smallest species, a baby is called a kid. But in general, if you say you spotted a fawn, people will know you mean a baby deer.

Foal

Dawn

Bambi

Fawn

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Because they hatch from eggs, it makes sense that baby alligators are called hatchlings. They're called this until they reach about 1 year of age, when they are referred to as yearlings, and when they grow to four feet in length, they are called subadults.

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Judging by how adorable baby goats are, the next time someone calls you "kid," accept it as a compliment! If "geep" sounds familiar to you, it's because recently an extremely rare goat-sheep hybrid, or geep, was born, making international news.

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Baby rabbits are called kittens, or kits for short. But hares are a different genus, and so their young have a different name. A young hare that is less than a year old is called a leveret, or the diminutive version of the Norman French word for hare, levre. So leverete literally means "young hare" or "small hare."

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"Calf" is used for quite a few species, especially large mammals like camels. Species of cattle, elk and moose, as well as elephants, walruses and even dolphins and whales all have young that are referred to as calves. So, if it's a large mammal, odds are good that you can correctly call its young a calf.

Calf

Bactrian

Dromedet

Colt

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You might have leaned toward "calf" after reading the answer to the last question, but we threw you a curveball. A baby alpaca (as well as baby llama, vicuña and guanaco) is called a cria, the Spanish word for "baby."

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Chickens are called cocks, hens and chicks, but peafowl are a bit different. Along with the added flare of their colorful feathers, they get the added "pea" in front of everything. Thus males are peacocks, females are peahens, and babies are peachicks.